2023 - 2024 Muddy Sneakers Expedition Guide
The 2023 - 2024 Muddy Sneakers Expedition Guide offers and overview of each expedition available this school year. For each topic, you'll find information about what to expect including sample activities, NC Essential Science Standard correlation, and vocabulary terms.
The 2023 - 2024 Muddy Sneakers Expedition Guide offers and overview of each expedition available this school year. For each topic, you'll find information about what to expect including sample activities, NC Essential Science Standard correlation, and vocabulary terms.
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FORCES & MOTION<br />
EXPEDITION ACTIVITIES<br />
*MOTION IN WATER<br />
5.P.1.1, 5.P.1.2, 5.P.1.4<br />
After defining motion as a change in position over time, students build boats out of<br />
natural materials and float them in a stream to measure the speed of the flowing<br />
water. Where no stream is present, this experiment can be conducted to measure the<br />
speed of students running, objects rolling down a hill, etc.<br />
How fast will your object travel down a measured section of a stream?<br />
On average, how fast is the water in the stream moving?<br />
Which section of the stream is moving fastest?<br />
*ROPE HAUL<br />
5.P.1.1, 5.P.1.4<br />
Using teamwork and problem-solving skills, students construct a pulley system to raise<br />
a load up to a tree limb. They analyze all of the forces (friction, gravity, pushing, pulling)<br />
that affect the pulley system, and discuss which ones make the work require more or<br />
less force.<br />
MOTION GRAPHS<br />
5.P.1.3<br />
Students learn to plot distance and time on a line graph and act out different<br />
movements as they are drawn on a graph. They may also graph the motion of objects<br />
or organisms from their surroundings, or from a facilitated storytelling session.<br />
NATURE WALK: LOOKING FOR MOTION<br />
5.P.1.1, 5.P.1.4<br />
While hiking, students observe motion and evidence of motion in the natural world.<br />
Students may discuss observations and record them in their journals, describing<br />
motion and the force or forces that may have caused it.<br />
*Activities that are most likely to take place during the expedition.<br />
FORCES & MOTION<br />
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